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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 10:33:17 +0200
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 20/20] thermal/intel_powerclamp: Convert the kthread
 to kthread worker API
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To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, linux-mm@kvack.org, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>, Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>, Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org

On 2016-04-14 17:14:39 [+0200], Petr Mladek wrote:
> Kthreads are currently implemented as an infinite loop. Each
> has its own variant of checks for terminating, freezing,
> awakening. In many cases it is unclear to say in which state
> it is and sometimes it is done a wrong way.

What is the status of this? This is the last email I received and it is
from April.

Sebastian

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